diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4d96d01..f845e25 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -170,3 +170,4 @@ libsepol-2.0.41.tgz
 /libsepol-2.7.tar.gz
 /libsepol-2.8-rc1.tar.gz
 /libsepol-2.8-rc3.tar.gz
+/libsepol-2.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/libsepol.spec b/libsepol.spec
index ecbb8e6..b55aa83 100644
--- a/libsepol.spec
+++ b/libsepol.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-%global rcversion rc3
-
 Summary: SELinux binary policy manipulation library
 Name: libsepol
 Version: 2.8
-Release: 0%{?rcversion:.%rcversion}.1%{?dist}
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: LGPLv2+
-Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/SELinuxProject/selinux/files/releases/20180510/libsepol-2.8-rc3.tar.gz
+Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/SELinuxProject/selinux/files/releases/20180524/libsepol-2.8.tar.gz
 # download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fedora-selinux/scripts/master/selinux/make-fedora-selinux-patch.sh
 # run:
-# $ VERSION=2.8-rc3 ./make-fedora-selinux-patch.sh libsepol
+# $ VERSION=2.8 ./make-fedora-selinux-patch.sh libsepol
 # HEAD https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux/commit/11eab8523bec5fcded6c336e3112f30f7931cba6
 # Patch1: libsepol-fedora.patch
 URL: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki
@@ -48,7 +46,7 @@ The libsepol-static package contains the static libraries and header files
 needed for developing applications that manipulate binary policies. 
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -p 1 -n libsepol-%{version}%{?rcversion:-%rcversion}
+%autosetup -p 1 -n libsepol-%{version}
 
 # sparc64 is an -fPIC arch, so we need to fix it here
 %ifarch sparc64
@@ -99,6 +97,9 @@ exit 0
 %{_libdir}/libsepol.so.1
 
 %changelog
+* Fri May 25 2018 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@workstation> - 2.8-1
+- SELinux userspace 2.8 release
+
 * Mon May 14 2018 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> - 2.8-0.rc3.1
 - SELinux userspace 2.8-rc1 release candidate
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 020bb4c..36cd0d4 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libsepol-2.8-rc3.tar.gz) = afefd13732aadd2b7e476cb439fa3d09dc870ac50f262b3c803459a5ce431c26d896e327a4207fea88eac7121e0901db77674bae632bb3940a80e183c156d7fc
+SHA512 (libsepol-2.8.tar.gz) = dd065886819a265cd4f2751ac231a7baa5d7c7735844f3557d5c7e1feb06d4b4d03433d26ff6419b426caf90b69771ee743850fe45d36bc0201cadb86c62189c